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[EmoBirb]

and allow Japan to completely disrupt the regional nuclear balance.

The regional nuclear balance has been disrupted since the North Korean missile program. This in turn led to Japan and yes even South Korea hedging their nuclear bets, "just in case". If one looks at South Korean ballistic missiles and thinks they're not a dual use asset is simply blind.

Well, in actuality East Asia was strategically destabilized since the PRC got access to nuclear devices, but that's another matter.

Either way, just how the PRC and DPRK developed their stockpile out of a sense of being in danger from Washington (or the USSR), if the threat level becomes too overt and the US is deemed to unreliable, Japan and the ROK will pursue similar developments, albeit more advanced. The DPRK couldn't be stopped, it's rather amusing to see people think the ROK or Japan could be stopped if they ever felt the urgent need to establish a nuclear deterrent.

 

[Nevermore]

The regional nuclear balance has been disrupted since the North Korean missile program. This in turn led to Japan and yes even South Korea hedging their nuclear bets, "just in case". If one looks at South Korean ballistic missiles and thinks they're not a dual use asset is simply blind.

Well, in actuality East Asia was strategically destabilized since the PRC got access to nuclear devices, but that's another matter.

Either way, just how the PRC and DPRK developed their stockpile out of a sense of being in danger from Washington (or the USSR), if the threat level becomes too overt and the US is deemed to unreliable, Japan and the ROK will pursue similar developments, albeit more advanced. The DPRK couldn't be stopped, it's rather amusing to see people think the ROK or Japan could be stopped if they ever felt the urgent need to establish a nuclear deterrent.

China's nuclear weapons and conventional military expansion objectives are designed to counter the island chain encirclement by the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Guam, and U.S. military bases in Southeast Asia. One cannot accuse China of disrupting regional equilibrium first when the U.S. imposes multiple island chain blockades against China. If the U.S. seeks to demand China's disarmament or North Korea's denuclearization, it must first lift its island chain blockade against China and cease its intimidating military exercises targeting North Korea.
As for your subsequent claim about Japan and South Korea's desire to acquire nuclear weapons, that is their own choice and has nothing to do with China. However, China and the international community possess sufficiently powerful means to prevent such actions or impose severe consequences. You are mistaken in believing that China cannot exert any external pressure on South Korea and Japan.

 

[manqiangrexue]

The regional nuclear balance has been disrupted since the North Korean missile program. This in turn led to Japan and yes even South Korea hedging their nuclear bets, "just in case". If one looks at South Korean ballistic missiles and thinks they're not a dual use asset is simply blind.

The world nuclear balance was disrupted when the US developed nuclear weapons. How could any country that stands against American imperialism not want nuclear weapons to balance the American/Western threat?

Well, in actuality East Asia was strategically destabilized since the PRC got access to nuclear devices, but that's another matter.

No, it became closer to stabilized in the sense that the historically dominant power started to return to its rightful position. When small powers sit "equal" to great powers, that is unsustainable and that is instability.

Either way, just how the PRC and DPRK developed their stockpile out of a sense of being in danger from Washington (or the USSR), if the threat level becomes too overt and the US is deemed to unreliable, Japan and the ROK will pursue similar developments, albeit more advanced. The DPRK couldn't be stopped, it's rather amusing to see people think the ROK or Japan could be stopped if they ever felt the urgent need to establish a nuclear deterrent.

DPRK couldn't be stopped because China and the Soviets backed them in the Korean war. They are regional giants that America and the West could not defeat from far away. America backs Japan and South Korea; with the decline of American power, they are in no position to say no the new regional hegemon. The more correct way to look at it is that even with America in its prime in power dynamic, China at its weakest and the Soviet Union collapsed, the US/West still could not impose its will on Asia; now that America is in heavy decline with Russia war-hardened and China surpassing the West in many critical technologies and still on an unstoppable meteoric ascent technologically, economically and militarily, what chance does America/pro-American forces have in Asia now? In the long run, it is always a stupid bet to favor a power far away and antagonize a giant neighbor just because one is currently in a sliver of history when that neighbor is weaker than the distant superpower. You are only coiling up a giant mousetrap spring that will break your spine once the balance of power shifts.